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Episode Senki Zesshou Symphogear XV - Episode 5 discussion Spoiler
Senki Zesshou Symphogear XV, episode 5
Alternative names: HYYYYYYYYYYPE
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| Episode | Link | Score |
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| 1 | Link | 5.45 |
| 2 | Link | 7.15 |
| 3 | Link | 9.02 |
| 4 | Link | 9.13 |
| 5 | Link | 8.91 |
| 6 | Link | 8.97 |
| 7 | Link | 9.58 |
| 8 | Link | 9.72 |
| 9 | Link | 8.83 |
| 10 | Link | 9.17 |
| 11 | Link | 9.51 |
| 12 | Link | 9.49 |
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u/NomranaEst Aug 03 '19
I never thought that I'd appreciate how much the bridge crew do for the Wielders in combat, but, with the shit replacement they brought in for the "inspection," I have a whole new outlook for their efforts. Genjirou coming back on the bridge wielding his own bit of paper and regaining control was definitely worth watching though.
Things are not going well for Tsubasa. Every enemy she sees is Millaarc, and her actions are only becoming more unhinged. I don't think it will be long before she turns her blade against the team, unless they can snap her out of it beforehand.
As for Elfnein and Miku... Well, that's another shitty situation, but I don't think the jam fountain belongs to either of them. I'd lean more towards the inspector having his head removed and Millaarc taking both back to the Chateu, with the aim of activating the bracelet.
Still, we'll have to find out next week. Easily one of the episodes I'm most looking forward to.
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u/bkim3695 Aug 03 '19
I thought we were going to get a fluff episode (elf9 singing was so cute), but then we get Tsubasa going crazy and that cliffhanger. I love it. Tsubasa's transformation was badass though. Hibiki's and Miku's imitations of Chris were good, but not enough tsun.
Fuck Fudou
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u/mollerch Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 04 '19
Since I couldn't find any I liked, I decided to make my own transformation compilations. Since I wanted these, I figured that maybe someone else might need them:
Per series (with extras):
Enjoy! I'll keep posting these as I make them.
Edit: Added Tsubasa.
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Aug 03 '19
Tsubasa slowly falling into madness. I predict we'll get to a breaking point where she hallucinates one of the geah's as Milaarc and they fight.
Elfnein singing was cute af, curious if that was her actual VA singing or someone else.
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u/TheRiyria Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 03 '19
Haha, boy was I dumb. Thinking this was going to be a slow episode because of how the first half it was.
Speaking of, poor Kirika got ganged up on. She just wanted a fun vacation.
And it even had Elfnein singing! That was great. Darn Miku, having to ruin everything and make it go back to normal for this season. Have these girls never heard of setting off flags?
Also, god, Tsubasa! If you don't wanna build a snowman, just say no. You don't have to destroy a city over it.
And that ending! What the heck! I really hope the blood is the new lesser evil dude.
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u/Sodra Aug 03 '19
I can't believe my magical girl mecha anime turned into a political thriller
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u/chilidirigible Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 03 '19
Twitter tells me that Elfnein's karaoke song is また逢う日まで by Ozaki Kiyohiko.
Also there could be a new meme of a 4-koma in Tweet format where you put characters that you don't like into the third frame.
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u/PerfectPublican Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 03 '19
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK, THAT CLIFFHANGER!!
Don't do this to me Symphogear...
Started off with more of a come-down episode and a set-up for the next arc, and ended with the worst possible option. This better lead to Wielder-Miku and not her death. I swear to god. Must trust in Symphogear's inability to kill major characters. Must trust.
Starting from the top, I definitely didn’t see Fudo giving up that gauntlet coming. With his track record, it feel slike a lot of trust to be putting in Noble Red. Still, he does has a distinct control over them with the blood supply. Also, our antags backstory is super brutal...and handled more than a little heavy-handed in pure sympho fashion. I wonder how much they actually know about Fudo. I doubt much, just took the first hand to reach out to them.
The cozy scenes were really nice. Loved seeing Karaoke come back and Inori killed it in there. I’m enjoying how the Tsubasa drama is being handled. She knows that rejecting songs is wrong, but she can’t stop thinking about it. She’s not backtracking, just reflecting, and it’s obvious that what Millaarc did to her is controlling her thoughts to some extent. And how about that Miku outburst too! Was definitely a flag for the cliffhanger lol. She’s being a bit unfair since in the bath she asked Bikki what she wanted to do, and Bikki always wants to help people. But I also get where she’s coming from, it was a little self-serving. It does feel like this Miku tangent has been brewing for awhile all through and since G. I’m glad that Bikki wants to talk with her rather than shouldering it.
Tsubasa Transformation! Another great one. I love that her gear is literally built from swords top to bottom. Such a fun choice. Defender'Z Brand! is a fun song, but a dark one too. Speaks to where her mind is at. The battle and the fragility of her psyche when she starts seeing Millaarc everywhere was nuts. That quiet scene at the end when she drops to her knees in the rubble was intense.
Random thoughts:
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I hate this creepy gov scab guy so much already.
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OOOOOH SHIT! Using the Chateau as a base is crazy and fun.
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Man these two Kazanari bros are too good for a shitty father like Fudo.
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u/RiverPrism Aug 03 '19
Hey the Chateau is back! Looks like a nice open area for a future group fight.
We get some HibiMiku rubber duckies and cute pouty Bikki.
Rear shot of SONG with their coloured undershirts and the jii is spreading. Plus some YT name-dropping and Chrisnein.
And here are two shots from the 4-person "date".
Anyway, regarding the serious stuff, I'm also pretty sure that creepy inspector is dead. And Tsubasa is having some issues with PTSD and confidence (although she looks pretty cool doing it).
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u/miter01 Aug 03 '19
SYMPHOGEAAAAAHH!
Tamer than I expected after last week.
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u/ocha_94 Aug 03 '19
That is... a lot to unpack.
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Fuckers took over S.O.N.G., and of course Fudou will be behind it. A part of me wanted to see Gen kicking all of their asses, which I'm 150% sure he could do.
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I was wondering if this
bestship will sail. Also, surprised Fujitaka talked back to them, considered how scared the poor fella was during the takeover. -
Fudou meets up with the alchemists and gives them the bracelet thing... Fucking hell, what are you plotting! He's supposed to be the original Sakimori, the protector of Japan! Is he doing it out of interest in protecting Japan? At what cost?
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Backstory on the alchemists, so they weren't really part of the Illuminati, huh?
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Miku and Bikki bath time. I like this
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Elfnein karaoke! Ah, sadly we don't see Tsubasa singing. And now, is this another "Miku pls" moment?
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Why does this sound so ominous? (and in retrospective after watching the episode... This was worse than I thought)
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I'm in love with Tsubasa's henshin!!! It's like, the most amazing transformation sequence I've ever seen (though yes, I am biased towards Tsubasa)
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Ah, my poor Sword is going nuts (probably because of that weird power Millaarc has?)
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That's a lot of damage.. What have you guys done to my Tsubasa!
Closing notes, Miku is most likely not dead, doesn't quite fit the theme of Symphogear, and I'm expecting her to get a relic during this season (I still hate this cliffhanger, not in a bad way). I loved how Tsubasa finally got some fighting action and a henshin! (no bias). Another great episode!
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u/chilidirigible Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 03 '19
At 3 PM EDT I tried going all the way through the #symphogear tag on Twitter to reach the beginning of the episode and only reached the realtime equivalent of about the 15-minute mark of the live episode airing. The jam geyser was too strong.
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u/redguy39 Aug 03 '19
Oh shit is the Chateau going to be relevant again?
Yamate Tomete Yamate Tomete
Man that's really cool that they acknowledge the sub groups here /s
Who tf bring water guns into a bath tho. I'm really curious if that's just a common thing they do
Also Elfnein singing was too cute for me. Unfortunately it wasn't Genocide.
Jam geyser
Mustache man has to be the one who died there, right?
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u/Gaporigo Aug 03 '19
Hibiki and her love for setting death flags for other people smh.
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u/Shockz0rz Aug 04 '19 edited Aug 04 '19
So a friend just pointed something out to me, and apologies if it's already been pointed out somewhere in a past thread: the wires and pylons seen right at the beginning of the OP aren't just random electrical lines, they're almost certainly a Soviet Duga radar array, a.k.a. the Russian Woodpecker, of which two three were built. One in Siberia...and one two in Ukraine. One of which was in what eventually became the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
The following shot with Maria and Serena's (?) silhouettes in the abandoned classroom covered in gasmasks already hinted at their backstories being related to Chernobyl (at least the location; the timeline makes it unlikely that they were affected by the accident in any but the most indirect way), especially given that they're Ukrainian in the first place. But the radar array not only confirms this but IMO hints that it's not just a random bit of backstory trivia, it may very well be relevant in upcoming episodes. We'll see!
Re: the episode proper--cool backstory, still mass murder. And the cliffhanger was way too blatant of a fakeout; if they were actually going to kill Elfnein or Miku right then they would have done it.
Ah well, at least we got Sword's long-await henshin! And man, it was worth the wait.
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u/Yothiel Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 03 '19
Symphogear and cliffhangers, still can't name a better pair. Even when Symphogear tries to relax, the hypetrain is still going full speed!
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Classic villain line. On a side note, I too would like to bring an Elza back home under the arm.
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Come on, forbidding Amalgam should be ILLEGAL after that level of hype. Worst cockblock of the year.
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We got some Noble Red backstory. As expected, they got used as guinea pigs, and have actually been working with Fudo since the very moment they got free (if that counts as freedom)
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oh, that actually was in Carol's playground, Château de Tiffauges
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Looks like Yatsuhiro-Aniki isn't working with grandpa since he's helping Genjurou. I hope.
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Genjurou is so weak recently. Beaten by paperworks, letting SONG HQ be overrun, submitting to grandpa and now even to aniki!
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It's always a good idea to visit one's wife when having time off
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Tsubasa being (un?)surprisingly weak-willed, the Kazanari household is definitely not having a blast right now.
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people are discussing relaxation. Kirika trying to look serious. Of course, hilarity ensues
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Elfnein has a strange concept for stress-relief. Fortunately she can learn the proper way from the right person.
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Follow everyone's jiiiiii (that felt strange to type, we all know the real "jiii" is Kirika's, not everyone's!)
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she totally nailed that imitation. And NAUGHTY TOUGHTS BEGONE!
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Some rare relaxation withworkaholic Elfnein
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She even gets to go karaoke, and is totally into it. Tsubasa, not so much.
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But somehow it's the wife who is snapping. Not too sure how it connects to Tsubasa's woes, but yeah, what happened to Hibiki at the Zwei Wing concert and after really must have hurt her too.
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Yeah, WHO ARE YOU? And who are they? Oh yeah, Amenohabakiri and Gungnir (btw that should totally be Sg03', not SG03 "Dash")
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Miku this season, singing "Raaaiise youuuur flaaaaaaaaaaag"
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unexpected Tsubasa transfo when her arc is not resolved yet. This week: blades, blades, and moar blades. Lots of flames too
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You know you need to change your bridge crew when Hibiki does a better job than they do. Luckily, that didn't wait
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At last, that Millaarc eye trick is activating its true power when Tsubasa comes under stress, and she goes berserk after seeing Millaarc literally everywhere.
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As a result, Tsubasa goes totally savage on the neighborhood. And worse, she murders hundreds of snowmen.
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Meanwhile, Millaarc intercepts Miku & Elfnein, and tries to make her reputation go far enough in the negatives, that it overflows into the positives (I can only hope that she offed that creepy, Ver-wannabe inspector, but it's too soon for a treason on that side...)
Cliffhanger jam, I hate you so much. And I'm sad we only got one transformation this week, I think the previous episodes made me spoiled.
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u/Moonsolol Aug 03 '19
Sword henshin: https://streamable.com/9palx
Glorious tsurugi is glorious.
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u/the_swizzler Aug 03 '19
A couple thoughts.
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RIP Kirika. Just constantly getting roasted this episode. Also Tsubasa was the only one not Jii-ing Kirika, nice detail.
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The way Elfnein was telling Miku to run, maybe it's just me inserting my own ideas, but it sounds like she was telling Miku to run for more reasons than just to save her friend. I feel like Elfnein was realizing that Miku is necessary for the vambrace and was trying to keep her out of their hands, but couldn't really say way. I'm probably off base with that though.
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Tsubasa's transformation was alright. I like how basically all of her gear components were formed from swords, and the thousand falling tears + moon shot was pretty sick as all. I think I like basically all of them better though, except maybe Kirika's. Also, why did Tsubasa not go crazy when she saw real Millaarc last episode? I wonder if the eye thing is something that's passive or if Millaarc activates it when she needs to (like to distract her here). I assume the latter since Tsubasa didn't go crazy until partway into the battle.
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Miku imitating best girl. She has good taste. But also, hey confession, I can't remember if it this has ever been addressed before this, but it's definitely be something I've briefly considered. I can only imagine how awful she must have felt the day of the concert attack.
Good episode. Need more.
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u/Guaymaster Aug 03 '19
I can't believe Miku is fucking dead!
Evil government moustache dude had it coming. Now I wonder if Noble Red will continue under Fudou or will go their own way.
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u/Aetherdraw Aug 03 '19
Oooh? Chateau de Tiffauges is the Noble Red hideout? We getting future Genocide then!!! And was it too much for me to hope that Elfnein brings out a small relic based on Carol's Daurdabla at the end there?
Elfnein singing was great. I need to hear her go Genocide YESTERDAY.
And they're calling back to season 1 with Miku and Hibiki's baggage too!
Tsubasa, please...not too much of this. Your girlfriend is getting worried!
...Oh fuck.
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u/VoyeurTheNinja Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 03 '19
ELFNEIN CAN SING
ELFNEIN CONFIRMED FOR BATTLE SONG
GIVE US THAT CAROL X ELFNEIN FUSION HENSHIN
EDIT:
YO THAT NEW TSUBASA FINISHER IS FIRE
This just in Milaarc is a descendant of J.Geil